Novelty place card



Dec. 9, 1924- 7 1,518,834

B. M. BLATNER NOVELTY PLACE CARD Filed Jan. 17, 1924 Patented Dec. 9, 1924. I M p UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BESSIE M. BLATNER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

N QVELTY PLACE CARD.

Application. filed January 1'7, 1924-. Serial No. 686,?13.

To all whom it may concern: protruding position around the base of the Be it known that I, BESSIE M. BLATNER, a candle. The pointed form of the upper porcitizen of the United States, residing at tion of the candle facilitates the insertion Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of thereof and the flexibility of the card per- 5 Illinois, have invented certain new and use mits the tongues to be sprung upwardly as ful Improvements in Novelty Place Cards, indicated, and after insertion the tongues of which the following is a specification, will press firmly against the surface of the The card of this invention is designed not candle by reason of the spring action of the only to afford an attractive place card for card, so that the candle will be firmly held luncheon or dinner service, but is also dein upright position. At the same time, the

signed to serve as a candle holder without major portion of the card surface will rethe necessity for providing a separately main unobstructed for the filling in of the formed candle socket, thereby reducing the name, so that the device will not only serve cost of manufacture to a minimum, enabling as an attractive place card, but also as a the cards to be readily packed in fiatwise source of illumination.

relation and avoiding the liability of loss I claim: or displacement of attachments designed 1. A plane flat novelty card provided with for candle holding purposes. cuts furnishing converging tongues, and a In the drawing: candle entered between said tongues and Figure 1 is a perspective view of the card serving to spring said tongues into elevated in use with a candle inserted; and relation and into position to bring the Fig. 2 is a plan view of the card without tongues into firm engagement with the side the candle. wall of the candle near its base, substantial- The card A is of rectangular form and ly as described.

of the customary size for dinner cards, and 2. A plane flat novelty card provided it may be decorated or embellished in any with intersecting cuts furnishing tongues suitable manner. The card is provided, prehaving their apices in converging relation, ferably near one end thereof, with two interand a candle entered between said tongues secting cuts B which afford four inwardly and serving to spring said tongues into eleconverging tongues O which may be bent vated relation and into position to bring the upwardly as indicated to provide for the apices of the tongues into firm contact with support of a candle D. the side wall of the candle above the butt H The candle may be easily inserted from end thereof, said butt end lying flush with beneath by forcing up the tongues, after the underside of the card, substantially as which the candle is moved to a position to described.

bring its butt end flush with the bottom of the card and with the tongues in upwardly BESSIE M. 'biJATNER. 

